Senior Devops Engineer

DevOps Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure production services are highly available and reliable, with proactive monitoring and incident management to support

  247

  operations.
• Design, implement, and operate secure, resilient AWS infrastructure using

  EKS, ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, Route 53, VPC, EC2, CloudFormation, SNS, and Secrets Manager

  .
• Operate and optimize

  Kubernetes

  clusters and containerized workloads; implement best practices for scaling, resource utilization, and upgrades.
• Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines (preferably

  GitHub Actions

  ) to automate builds, tests, and deployments with safe rollback strategies.
• Own deployment activities for microservices and distributed applications; collaborate with engineering teams on release coordination and deployment automation.
• Drive infrastructure automation, configuration-as-code, and IaC best practices; maintain and evolve CloudFormation templates and related tooling.
• Implement and maintain observability: logging, metrics, alerting, and dashboards to support SLO/SLI objectives.
• Conduct vulnerability assessments and coordinate remediation with engineering and security teams; participate in incident response and post-incident reviews.
• Enforce and administer access controls; handle onboarding/offboarding and secret management with least-privilege principles.
• Produce and maintain runbooks, operational procedures, and release documentation.
• Support security and compliance initiatives; participation in ISO 20000 or SOC 2 efforts is an advantage.
• Mentor and assist new team members on operational practices, access processes, and onboarding.

Required Qualifications (Must-have)

• Bachelors or Masters degree in

  Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering

  , or a closely related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 4+ years of DevOps experience

  with hands-on expertise in designing, implementing, and operating secure, resilient AWS infrastructure using

  AWS services

  (EKS, ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, Route53, VPC, CloudFormation, EC2, SNS, Secrets Manager, etc.
• Strong operational experience with

  Kubernetes

  (cluster management, networking, storage, upgrades).
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines using

  GitHub Actions

  or equivalent tooling.
• Proficiency with

  shell scripting

  and experience in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Go, Java).
• Demonstrated experience supporting deployments for

  scalable production systems

  .
• Solid understanding of computer networking fundamentals DNS, domains, firewalls, SSL/TLS certificate management, and encryption.
• Experience working in an

  Agile

  development environment.
• Strong documentation and communication skills; ability to produce clear runbooks and release notes.
• Proficiency with

  Terraform

  and

  Ansible

  for automated deployments

Preferred Qualifications (Good-to-have)

• Well-versed in

  AI-assisted developer tools

  (for example: GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, and similar platforms) and experienced using these tools to accelerate code generation, create infrastructure templates, author runbooks, automate repetitive tasks, and support faster troubleshooting.
• Awareness of

  DDoS

  mitigation strategies and network protection controls.
• Experience with vulnerability management programs and formal

  incident management

  processes.
• Operational experience with

  Elasticsearch

  at scale.
• Prior work with

  microservice

  deployment patterns and distributed application environments.
• Experience participating in or implementing

  ISO 20000

  /

  SOC 2

  compliance activities.
• Hands-on experience managing distributed application environments at scale.

Personal Attributes

• Strong ownership mentality and pragmatic problem-solver.
• Detail-oriented with a bias for automation and repeatability.
• Effective collaborator who can communicate operational and security concerns to engineering and business stakeholders.

Comfortable working under pressure and participating in on-call rotations

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